The U.S. government has presented its strategic plan for the development of charging infrastructure and hydrogen refuelling stations for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles by 2040. The strategy aims to identify priority hubs based on freight volumes, connect these with critical corridors, and eventually achieve a national network by linking corridors. Read more…
Author: electrive.com
Renault delivers 165 electric trucks to XPO Logistics
Renault and XPO Logistics have signed a purchase agreement for 165 fully electric lorries. The logistics company intends to use them to replace its diesel fleet on short-haul routes. Read more…
Interparking adds 700 charging points to car parks at Brussels Airport
Interparking, which is responsible for public car parks at Brussels Airport, has been gradually putting 700 new charging stations into operation since the beginning of this month. This step will massively increase the existing charging infrastructure at the airport from the previous 50 charging points to a total of 750.
Read more…
Grünheide: Production is underway and Musk visits the Tesla plant
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has visited the Gigafactory in Grünheide. Following an arson attack last week, the assembly lines there were at a standstill for a week. The factory has had power again since Monday and production has been resuming there since Wednesday morning. Read more…
SQM Lithium Ventures increases investment in Altilium
SQM Lithium Ventures has increased its investment in British battery firm Altilium by $9.43 million US dollars, bringing its total contribution to $12 million. Read more…
Ferroglobe to produce battery materials with Coreshell
Ferroglobe, a manufacturer of silicon metal and ferroalloys, wants to produce the first battery-ready metallurgical silicon for the development of cost-effective electric car batteries together with the battery technology company Coreshell in the USA. Read more…
Netherlands to add 35,000 new public charging points
Over the next four years, up to 35,000 new public charging points will be installed in 74 municipalities in the Dutch provinces of North Holland, Flevoland and Utrecht. The rollout is scheduled to begin this year and be completed by 2028 at the latest. Read more…
Glencore fills financing gap for battery recycling partner Li-Cycle
Swiss mining and commodities group Glencore is helping the Canadian battery recycling company Li-Cycle with a liquidity injection of 75 million dollars. Li-Cycle has been struggling with a financial bottleneck since construction work on a new plant in the USA was interrupted in November. Read more…
Nissan and Honda look to cut production capacities in China
Nissan and Honda are preparing to significantly reduce their production capacities in China. The background to this is allegedly that the Japanese car manufacturers are finding it difficult to keep up with Chinese competitors in the race for electric cars. Read more…
Subaru and Aisin will develop eAxels together
Subaru and Japanese automotive supplier Aisin have agreed on a cooperation to jointly develop and produce eAxles for battery-electric cars. These will be used to power the new electric vehicles that Subaru plans to build from the second half of this decade. Read more…
EU Parliament wants to allow higher maximum weight for zero-emission lorries
Following the Transport Committee, the EU Parliament has now also voted in favour of increasing the maximum weight and length of zero-emission trucks. This finalises the Parliament’s position ahead of the negotiations with the Council. Read more…
Wallbox & COIL secure funds from Washington State
Wallbox and subsidiary COIL are to receive $25.6 million from the Washington Department of Commerce’s Electric Vehicle Charging Program to install charging infrastructure in residential areas across Washington State. Read more…
Van Hool announces exit from electric bus business and faces unclear future
The Belgian bus manufacturer Van Hool wants to completely discontinue the production and sale of city buses. The company no longer sees any chance of being competitive in the increasingly electric city bus segment. The economic situation is also likely to be very tense. Read more…
Customcells founds US subsidiary and opens office in Detroit
Customcells opens its first international location. The German battery cell manufacturer has founded a US subsidiary and is now represented with an office in Detroit, Michigan. Customcells plans to coordinate its market entry there from there. Read more…
Blink Charging to establish new HQ in Maryland
Blink Charging has announced its intention to move its company headquarters to Maryland, USA. There it will establish its global production HQ, as well as R&D capacities in the former SemaConnect facilities. Read more…
Milence announces first truck charging park in France
The Milence electric truck charging joint venture between Daimler Truck, the Traton Group, and the Volvo Group will open its first charge park south of Rouen. The location should be operational in April. Read more…
BAIC, CATL & Xiaomi to build battery cell factory in Beijing
BAIC, CATL and Xiaomi have revealed plans for a joint venture to operate a battery cell factory in Beijing. Construction will start this year and the joint venture will launch with capital worth 1 billion yuan (138 million USD). Read more…
New Flyer to deliver up to 1,420 electric buses to New York City
The North American bus manufacturer New Flyer has announced a major order from New York City, which includes the delivery of up to 1,420 electric buses over the next five years. It will build 12 and 18-metre buses for the Big Apple. Read more…
Biliti Electric builds manufacturing plant in India
Californian electric tuk-tuk manufacturer Biliti Electric has started construction of a new production facility in India. The plant in Hyderabad will produce battery packs in addition to Biliti Electric’s three-wheeled electric vehicles. Read more…
Tesla ramps up production in Grünheide again
After the power came back on in Tesla’s German Gigafactory late Monday night, the company will resume production on Wednesday. And the financial loss is not as significant as initially feared. Read more…
